mes

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We also regret a typographical error in Steele Commager's review in the February 3 issue: the word mes appeared instead of mos in his quotation from Ovid: "Nec tamen ut testes mos est audire poetas." —

Then Chaucer, not liking the "mes" at the beginning of the word, changes that unscrupulously into "arch;" and gathers in, though too shortly, a lovely bit from another place about the nightingales flying so close round Love's head that they strike some of the leaves off his crown of roses; so that the English runs thus: